Warriors Don't Cry : A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
by Melba Beals
Mass Market Paperback
Item Number
P1105
Product Details
- AR Level6.5
- AR Quiz Number18436
- AR Quiz Points9
- AuthorMelba Beals
- Page Count240
- ISBN101416948821
- ISBN139781416948827
- PublisherPocket Books
- Year Published2007
- Grade Level7 - 12
- Type of BookNon-Fiction
- SubjectSocial & cultural history
Educational strategies & policy
Biography: general
Secondary schools
Black & Asian studies
Product Description
An innocent teenager.An unexpected hero. In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, "Brown v. Board of Education," Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob's rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity and courage, and refused to back down. This is her remarkable story.